Critical Content and Skills

Content Area: English/Health
Courtney

Students will know...	Formative Assessment	Students will be able to...	Product Summative Assessment
1. how to change a few words in a description in order to completely change its outlook.	Alter a paragraph using thesaurus.	1. Explain: justify how certain word choices can sway ones view.	Work Sample: I will provide students with a descriptive paragraph about something. They will highlight and number ten word or phrases from the text. Using their thesauruses they will change the word or phrase to make it more descriptive or appealing.
2. how to create a story which depicts how food advertising can be misleading.	Compare food labels to advertising.	2. Interpret: read between the lines of advertising and nutrition.	ComicLife: Pick a food that has advertising to make is look good and create a comic based around this food. The villain will represent the food and the superhero will fight the villain and reveal that the food isn't really all the great based on it's nutritional information.
3. how to build a persuasive piece in order to convince an audience of a certain opinion or view.	Persuasive essay.	3. Apply: build their own opinion on descriptions of food and the food industry.	Essay: Students will write a persuasive essay on a certain food that they like and convince others to like it as well. They will incorporate advertising tricks into their paper in order to sway their audience.
4. how to create a venn diagram of good and bad food reviews and interpret the information gathered by it.	Venn diagram and reflection.	4. Perspective: compare and contrast what good and bad food reviews contain.	Wikispaces: Students will complete a venn diagram based on reading various food reviews both inside and outside of class. They will compile the characteristics of the reviews and display them in a venn diagram. We will create a wikispace as a class to compile everyone's information on the good, bad and in between of food reviews.
5. how to translate what they read into images by creating visual representations.	Create Advertisement.	5. Empathy: imagine what is being described in an assortment of texts.	Glogster, Comic Life, Poster, Drawing: Students will read a descriptive text describing food. I want students to create a visual representation for what they pictured while reading this text and present it to the class with an explanation. We will compile advertisements/images into a culinary magazine.
6. how to gather and report information on a specific focus of body image and create a multi-genre research paper containing their findings.	3 peice multi-genre.	6. Self Knowledge: be aware of the different lights shed on body image because of food.	2 written pieces in different genres of writing and a technology piece (iMovie, Podcast, Blog, Wikispace, Comic Life...): Students will be assigned a three piece multi-genre assignment. They will research advertising related to food and body images in today's media world. They will focus on a specific image and research it. I will provide examples and guidance for topics and genres.

Formative

Q - Quizzes
WS - Work Sample
SA - Self Assessment
P - Prompts
O - Observation
D - Dialogues

Product - Summative

CL- Comic Life
IM - Imovie
B - Blog
PC - Podcast
W - Wikispace
G - Glogster